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South Africa’s rand weakens as rally for riskier assets pauses

Johannesburg, South Africa (Capital Markets in Africa) – South Africa’s rand weakened more than one percent to the dollar on Tuesday, softening to a one week low of 12.2300 per greenback as a recent rally for riskier assets petered out. According to one trader, technical factors were also beginning to filter through with the 12.30 support level in sight, putting some strain on the dollar rand cross.

Morocco’s Foreign Currency Reserves rise 16% on year-on-year

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Casablanca, Morocco (Capital Markets in Africa):- Morocco’s net foreign currency reserves amounted to MAD 193.9 billion till 12 June, an increase of 16% year-on-year, according to local gazette Hespress. On 17 June, Morocco’s central bank, or Bank Al-Maghrib, kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged at 2.5% , saying that inflation would remain consistent with price stability targets. Inflation is expected to reach 1.5% in 2015 and 1.4% on average over the next six quarters. However, there…

Egyptian Resorts to build US$2.5m solar power plant

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Cairo, Egypt (Capital Markets in Africa) — Egyptian Resorts Company has signed a long-term lease contract with KarmSolar for the establishment of a solar power plant at a cost of US$2.5 million, the company reported in the filling to the Exchange on Sunday. The plant, whose production capacity would be not less than 2 Megawatt, is scheduled to start operation by the second half of 2016, the company added. In addition, Egyptian Resorts Company will…

Peugeot Citroen’s Moroccan Factory to Produce 200,000 Cars a Year

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Rabat, Morocco (Capital Markets in Africa) — The new factory of the French leading carmaker PSA Peugeot Citroen will produce 200,000 cars and 200,000 motorbikes a year, Minister of Industry, Commerce, Investment and the Digital Economy Moulay Hafid Elalamy said. The new plant, to be completed by 2019, will generate 4.500 direct jobs and 20,000 indirect, said the Minister in an address before King Mohammed VI, who chaired on Friday the signing ceremony of the…

Nigeria selects two sites for nuclear power plants

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Lagos, Nigeria (Capital Markets in Nigeria) – Nigeria has selected two sites for the construction of its planned nuclear power plants, as Africa’s biggest economy tries to end decades of electricity blackouts that have blighted its growth. Russia’s state-owned Rosatom, which has been in talks with Nigeria over the nuclear plants, on Friday confirmed two sites had been selected in Africa’s most populous nation and said they would have a total of four reactors. Neither side…

Nigeria’s Transcorp says on track for 850 MW capacity this year

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Lagos, Nigeria (Capital Markets in Africa) – Nigeria’s Transcorp is on track to boost its power generation capacity to 850 megawatts (MW) by the end of 2015 from 610 megawatts last year, the company’s chief executive said on Friday. Transcorp, which also has interests in hotels, oil and gas, was one of several firms to buy government power assets two years ago, sold as part of a privatisation meant to end decades of blackouts in Africa’s…

France’s FigeacAero to open production unit in Morocco

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Rabat, Morocco (Capital Markets in Africa) – Morocco’s aeronautics industry continues to spread its wings. Following in the footsteps of other global heavyweights in aeronautics such as Bombardier and Airbus, a 25 million euros investment will be injected in the Moroccan aeronautics industry by FigeacAero, a French group specializing in mechanical aerospace. The French company has confirmed plans to open a production unit in Casablanca which is expected to generate 500 jobs and an investment of…

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